Glove and method of making same from strip material



Jan. '11, 1938. J, BLOOM v 2,104,724

GLOVE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME FROM STRIP MATERIAL Filed oct. 2, 1957 2 sheets-sheet 1 INVENTOR Jessepk T5 lcv-om Jan. l1, 1938. J. BLooM 2,104,724

GLOVE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME FROM STRIP MATERIAL Filed oct. 2, 1957 2 sheets-sheet 2 atented jan. 1938 -Nrrao STATES! rTENr jor-Fics lGLVE AND METHGD OF MAKING SAME FROM STRIP MATERIAL Joseph Bloom, New (York, N. Y. Application October 2, 193'?,V Serial No. 166,941

'z claims. (ci 24169) sheet of suitable material suchas a fabric or leather and cut out a glove to the desired configuration. Two suitably cut sections are -joined tol5 gether with a kyle atthe sides of the fingers 'to provide proper spacing between the two glove sections and to provide proper fitting for the ilngers.- At those points where the fingers meet the palm and between the fingers are yfourchettes which are used to provide a proper tting and to give. a propershape to the glove.

' flhere-A are a multiplicity of operations requiring skilled labor oiv a high degree in the manufacture of gloves according to the present process. The manufacture of a glove not only requires skilled labor but also extended time, factors which go towards making a glove a comparatively high priced article of wearing apparel in view of the comparatively small amount of raw material employed. In other words, the cost of a glove lies largely in the cost Aoi? the labor involved in lthis manufacture.

It is the primary object of my invention to provide a novel process for producing a glove by means of a few simple manufacturing steps requiring unskilled labor.

The novel glove of my invention is furtherl` because of the method of manufacture, an extremely attractive article characterized by form fitting qualities and good wearing properties.

The manufacture of my novelglove involves the use of a plurality of strips of any desired material such as"si1k,'wool, rayon or the skins of any ma terial may be used that canbe formed into strips. These strips are the elements of the process of my invention and can be formed, if a knitted material is to be used, on a Rochel, at or Jacquard knitting machine or any knitting machine that can produce a long, narrow strip of fabric. Preferably, the edges of this fabric are welted to provide against subsequent unravelling and also to facilitate lateral securing with similar strips during the manufacture of the glove from these strips. As will be described more fully hereinafter, the strips are longitudinally aligned with re' spect to the length of the glove, a single strip forming a single linger and a single strip forming both thumb and index finger. A strip of the desired material may be folded or two strips, su-

perimposed one upon the other, may be secured by 5 stitching so that no internal seams that are objectionable from the standpoint of discomfort to the wearer, are produced.

Itis an important feature of my invention that I can produce a square finger tip by the process l0 of folding over the strip of material at said finger tipA and closing the sides by ordinary stitching.' I

. can also secure the square tip by superimposing two strips and stitching the two strips together in proper form to provide a linger and body portion 15 for the glove. If desired I can produce a round tip finger by suitably cutting the strip or strips at the finger, end to the desired shape and then stitching them together. I have also found it possible to regulate the shape of the nger tip by the spacing ofthe stitching from the edge of the strip, and the shape of the line of stitching. This finger tip shape applies whether I use two superimposed strips or a single overlapping strip of material.

I have also formed a very novel and decorative glove by spacing the strips of material laterally at a distance, one from the other, and securing them in that position by a decorative stitching. Thus I haveformed an open-work glove with a lace-like appearance which is of great value for summer wear.

It is the object of my invention to provide a novel process for simply manufacturing a glove with a minimum of manufacturing steps.

It is the further object of my invention to provide a novel process of assembling strips of suitable material in longitudinal alignment to form a glove.

It is the further object of my invention to assemble two strips of material, one superimposed upon the other, and to secure said superimposed strips at the edges to form a finger portion for a glove.

It is a further object of my invention to provide a novel decorative glove comprising strips of glove material. Y

It is a further object of my invention to provide a glove with strips of varying width so that differvences in finger widths on a single hand may be 50 compensated for to provide a well tting glove.

It is a further object of my invention to provide a glove in which'the thumb and index linger may be formed by a single strip of material.

It is a further object of my invention to pro- 70 rayonl or any material of thisnature.

vide a novel glove in which the thumb may be formed and inset by a single strip of material.

It is a further object of my invention to provide a novel method of manufacturing gloves in s which the necessity ofthe use of the kyle-and the fourchette is eliminated.

It is the further object of my invention to provide a novel glove formed from strip material so assembled as to produce no objectionable'seam.

It is the further object 'of my invention to provide a. novel method of glove manufacture in which a single strip of glove material is folded over upon itself and suitably stitched to provide a finger and body portion for the glove.

Itis the further object of my invention to profvide a strip of fabric with a welt edge to form the glove of myinvention.

It is the further object of my invention to provide a novel glove comprising strips of glove ma terial laterally spaced in longitudinal alignmentk to provide an open-work glove.

It is the further object of my invention to provide a method of glove manufacture in which a continuous knitted strip of material is formed with alternate solid and strip sections and subsequently cut to be assembled in glove formation.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a strip of material having a welt edge which comprises the element of my glove.

Figure 2 shows a' plan view of the novel glove of my invention manufactured from strips of material such as Figure i. Figure 3 is a cross-section showing a finger of the glove made from a one piece strip folded over at the top.

Figure 4 shows a modied form of finger formation of the glove. Two strips of material, one

superimposed upon the other, are joined at theK edges to finger form. 0 Figure 5 is a partial cross-section taken along the line 5-5 of Figure 2, in which the laterial joining of the strip is effected without a protruding seam.

Figure 6 is a-modied form of strip assembly j in which desirable decorativeeiiects are obtained by spacing the strips and stitching with the decorative material.

Figure 7 shows the novel .manner in which a single strip of material is used to form both index ilnger and thumb.-

Figure 8 shows a continuous length of knitted' by sewing together the straight strips of materiall without any cutting opration. I Figure 1`1 is a side elevation showing a cut section of Figure 8 after folding.

s Referring now more specifically to the drawings, Figure 1 showos a strip of material which may be of any desired textile fabric suchas silk, wool,

It is also within the purview of my inventionto usea strip of leather or skin material of any nature. i

Around the edge of the strip of marial is a welt edge 2 which serves to prevent unravelling n of the strip and also has a useful function with encinas respect to the lateral edge to edge joining of a plurality of these strips into gl ve form. This welt edge 2 is of special utilit when a textile strip is used.

Figure 2 is a plan view of an assembled glove 5 of myv invention. Therein a strip I has been formed into nger form; folded over upon itself to form a finger and body of the' glove as indicated. I'he folding over occurs at the ilnger tip 3. The sides of the overlapped strip I are then sewed by securing stitching 4 to form an enclosure representing a nger and, in this case, the side of the glove. If desired the shape of the finger tip can be modied by regulating the distance of the stitching from the edge of the fabric at said l5 finger tip as shown at 5' whereby square or round tips, if desired, can be obtained. The strip thus formed into a finger and body portion of the glove is united to a similarly shaped finger and body portion by suitable stitching 6 along the body of the glove. This stitching is carried up to the point 1 at which point the fingers begin.

Around the edge of the bottom of the body portion of the glove is a binding 8 whichhas utility in that it prevents any unravelling of the edge of the glove, and further, may serve decorative purposes. Attention is Fdirected to the fact that the thumb i3 and index finger Iare formed from a single Nstrip of material II by a method to be described more in detail hereinafter. It is further to be noted that the various strips of material which go to form different fingers are preferably of various widths to obtain proper fitting eilects.

In Figure 3 there is represented a cross-section of a finger of the glove formed from a single strip of material I2 which has been overlapped at the end I3. r

Figure 4 shows a modified form of a inger formation in which two strips I4 and I5 are superimposed and secured at the end by stitching IG.- 40

Figure 5 shows a partial cross-section taken along the line 5-5 of Figure 2. Therein the strips I' are secured by cro'ss stitching I8 so that no protruding seam is formed. This is an important feature of my invention since it is very desirable vto eliminate any possibility of discomfort of a protruding seam within the glove.

"Figure 6 shows two strips of material I9 and 2n spaced one from the other and secured by a stitching g2 I. in that manner. In this manner a very attractive openwork glove can be obtained.

Figure 'l shows a cross-section of the thumb and index finger portion of my glove and indicates how a single strip of material 22 is used to form both index finger 23 and thumb 24. In vFigure 8 a continuous length lof knitted fabric 25 is formed with separated strips 2B knitted integrally therewith. As shown, alternate sections of solid knitted portion and separated strip portions are formed in a continuous length. The continuous length is then` severed, as along the line 21, formingsections which can be overlapped to form a glove. In the continuous length shown here sufficient strips and sufficiently wide body portions are knitted so that a plurality of gloves can be made from each section. In this last method of manufacture, speed of operation and economy of manufacture are primary factors.

In Figure 9 is shown a round edge finger` 28 obtained by cutting' the two superimposed strips to the desired shape 29 before stitching. Alternatively a strip could be folded over upon itself at the finger tip portion and then cut to this F same shape. Further the stitching III could be 7|,

made in this desired line on the square endedat the sides. The section is severed in the middie in the line 33 separating the twogloves. Each glove is subsequently stitched along this line. Slits -3Ii are appropriately placed and adapted to carry an inset thumb portion.

Alternatively the sections may be further cut midway between the strips, and the two cut sections superimposed, the fingers properly shaped and the stitching applied around the fingers and o sides to form a glove.

I shall now describe a specific method of making the novel glove of my invention. Although any type of glove material may be used, in my process I shall speak specifically with reference to knitted textile fabric. On a knitting machine of the Rachel, fiat or Jacquard type, I knit a long, narrow strip of the width on the order of 1%, of an inch. This width can be varied according to the width of the fingers of the glove it is desired to form therefrom. On the sides of this strip there are formed welt edges which serve to prevent unravelling and also provide aA the seam. Two such welt edge strips are then proportioned of the proper length, Lone superimposed upon the other as shown in Figure 2.-

ger, are then superimposed one upon the other and joined by stitching to form a finger and the body portion. The so joined strips are then attached as shown at 6 in Figure 2. This joining to the adjacent strip thus goes towards the forming of both the top and the palmA of vthe glove as shown at i and i in Figure 2. Similarly, other fingers can be formed.'

The index finger and thumb may be formed from a single strip of the fabric as shown in Figure 7, by folding the stripin front to form the thumb and extending it to form a lapping upon itself to form the finger and body portion of the glove. The sides of the ngers are then stitched together to form a closure. Athumb may also,

be formed by simply folding over-asingle strip of the material and insetting it in an bpening' in the front of the body portion of the glove below the index finger. 1

I have spoken of a process involving two superimposed strips joined to form a section of my glove which joining is shown vin Figures. It is to be understood that a single strip may be used instead of the two strips to forml all of the' fingers, the single strip being folded upon itself as shown in Figure, and secured at its edges as indicated hereinbefore.

When two square edge strips are united, a

comfort to the wearer.

square finger tip isformed. When a single strip l is folded over upon itself a square finger tip is similarly formed. However, the shape of the nger tip may beyariedby stitching inwardly of the edge of the material to form an arc over the finger tip thus producing a round finger tip.

Alternatively, the 'end of the finger tip may be cut to the shapegdelsired, 'such as a round edge and stitched in that form. Reviewingbriefly y,what has been said above, the glove is formed from four longitudinally aligned and laterally joined strips of glove material as shown in'Figure 2. These longitudinal sections of the glove can be formed either from two superimposed This lateral .joining of the .longitudinally einv aligned strips is preferably effected by a crossy stitching as shown at i@ in Figure 5. This cross stitching effects the joining of the laterally dis posed strips without causing an inwardly protruding seam which would be a surce of dis- Any suitable stitch can be used to eiect'this purpose. If desired, a sufficient plurality of strips with welt edges may be integrally and continuously formed on the knitting machine so that the glove may be` completed by simply cutting the ngers to shape as set forth hereinbefore.

Over this securing stitch an attractive, decora-- tive stitch may be superimposed externally to emphasize the lines of the glove and add materially to its appearance. l.

The glove formed as indicated above, may have a wrist portion consisting of an independently knitted section or a simple binding may be effected on the bottom of the wrist for decorative purposes 'and to preventv any possible unravelling of the glove. y

Although'the glove has been formed from a plurality of strips whose width is equal to that of the fingers involved, it is also the object of my invention to make the single strip which has been formed to make a single finger from a plurality of strips laterally joined. Preferably, how ever, I use a single strip for a single finger. A

- glove formed according to the method indicated has excellent fitting qualities, especially when the width of the strips have been regulated according to the particular fingers involved. Thus, in the formation of the middle finger, a wider strip is used than in the'formationof the little finger.

By the method IJhave set forth, I have eliminated a great number of steps hitherto regarded as necessary in glove manufacture and I have set forth a comparatively simple process for forming lfili gloves of strips which can be inexpensively manufactured. l.

An alternative method of practicing my inven-V tion consists in knitting an endless length of fabric as shown in Figure 8 of the drawings, with alternate sections of solid and strip material.

'I'he solid portions go toward making up the body :ing is run down the sides ofthe strip portion therein and alsoat both edges of the strip.

manufacture is used, a thumb portion is inset by the use of a single strip of material or by two, superimposed, properly secured strips of material. This last mentionedmethod provides an extremely simple and inexpensive method of glove manufacture. When the sections of Figure 8 are folded over upon themselves, they present an appearance similar to Figure 11.. They can then be severed down the line 33 to form ltwo gloves.

There Vare many modifications and combinations of methods Vof making gloves which suggest themselves from the steps set forth in my specification. I have set forth the combinations of diiferent'steps only by way of specific example. I intend to be limited by the appended claims only.

I claim: y 1. The method of making a fabric glove whic comprises knitting laterally joinedselvage strips,

e separating the selvage strips between the selvage edges for a predetermined distance to provide finger portions, transversely cutting the strips tov form a glovesection, superimposing two such out sections and securing the superimposed cut 'sections'at the sides and around'the edges ofthe finger portions.

2. A fabric glove comprising 'selvage fabric strips of substantially finger Kwidth laterally joined in the palm portion, said selvagefabric strips comprising the front and' back of theflngers and being joined at the edges to form nger stalls.

3. The method of making a fabric glove which transversely cutting the selvage strips to form' a glove section, superimposing two such cut .sec-

tions and securing the superimposed cut sections at the sides and around the edges of the 'finger portions.

4. The method of making a fabric glove which comprises knitting laterally joined selvage strips, separating the selvage strips between the selvage edges of adjacent strips for a distance suilicient to form finger portions of a length substantially twice that of the finger to be formed; transversely cutting the laterally joined selvage, strips to form an integral glove section comprising laterally joined selvage strips at each end and separated selvage strips therebetween; folding the cut glove section upon itself at a point intermediate'the separated selvage strips so that a face to face contact of the laterally joinedselvage strips and the separated selvage strips is effected, and securing the folded over glove section at the edges to form the palm portion and finger stalls respectively of the glove.

5. In`a method of manufacturing a fabric glove, the steps of forming. the thumb and index finger of the glove by folding a finger width fabric strip upon itself to form a thumb portion; again folding the strip upon itself at a predetermined distance from the irst fold to form an index finger portion, the line of bothfolds being perpendicuits length folded upon itself and secured along the side edges to form a thumb and index :linger stalls. 7. A fabric glove comprising welt edge fabric vstrips of substantially finger width laterally joined in .the palm portion by stitching within the welt edges so that no protruding seam. is

formed, said welt edge fabric strips comprising the front and back of the ngers and being joine at the edges to form finger stalls.

JOSEPH IBLOOM. 

